I dont think he will be persuaded

Probably not, but good quality RAM that is worth having will set you back about £65 for 4Gb.  Plus, i think itll probably be an Intel rig.  

OCZ PC2-6400 ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth 4GB Dual Channel DDR2

£33.65 from PC World

If your lucky enough to get your hands on some at your local store  

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I suspect they have done their normal trick.  There is one pack of it, somewhere in northern Scotland.

A fair few popped up on Ebay, and a big thread at Hexus about it. I was tempted to pop down my local today, but we only just discovered the wheel down here in the south so they probably wont have any in stock  

Pretty normal for them to advertise it.  they had some very cool multi-input LG monitors in a couple of months back, and in the end it turned out that the only place you could get them was Glasgow.

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I dont think he will be persuaded

Probably not, but good quality RAM that is worth having will set you back about £65 for 4Gb.  Plus, i think itll probably be an Intel rig.  

Higher quality ram doesnt make any difference at all, unless you want to overclock. Even then in most cases you get more speed from more ram.

Ahem, its looks nice

And Corsair comes with Lifetime Warranty, those snot sticks dont

And Corsair comes with Lifetime Warranty, those snot sticks dont

"lifetime Warranty" has been challenged in court a few times.  IIRC what it actually means is the realistic lifetime of something, not 10 years down the line.  Something like RAM would be considered to have a lifetime of up to about 5 years, after that the company is being nice letting you exchange it.  

When it comes down to it youll often find Micron or Hynix chips being used on the cheaper "Quality" RAM anyway, so all you are really paying for at that point is the warranty, and when its £10 per Gb as opposed to £20 per Gb you have to wonder if its worth taking the chance.  

OCZ PC2-6400 ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth 4GB Dual Channel DDR2

£33.65 from PC World

If your lucky enough to get your hands on some at your local store  

Thanks for that, none near me though  

All from ebuyer.

ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI 780G Socket AM2+ onboard graphics 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard    150282    
Extra Value 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 240pin Extra Value Ram    116357    
Extra Value Black/Silver Cube Case No Side Window - With 650W PSU    125742    
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.1GHz Socket AM2 1MB L2 (2x512KB) Cache Retail Boxed Processor    149211
Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB Hard Drive SATA II 7200rpm *32MB Cache* - OEM    130826    
LG GH22LP20 22X DVD±RW DL & RAM LightScribe Black - OEM    148588    
ASUS 9500GT TOP Edition 512MB DDR3 DVI VGA HDMI HDCP PCI-E Graphics Card    149250

£321.92 inc VAT and shipping.  I did a bit of hunting around, and it seems you are better off with a 6000+ than a 5200, but the benchmarks are limited on that CPU because its newish, and even Toms Hardware havent done the chip in the reviews.  

What you have there is the best small AMD chipset for the AM2+ series boards, an older Aspire Q-Pack case under another name (I used to have a Q-Pack as my HTPC, rather nice cases), energy efficient chip with a bit more grunt, and 2Gb of RAM.  What I would think of is what GFX you actually want.  I specced up an nVidia card, but putting the right ATi card in will result in a form of unbalanced crossfire where the 2 GPUs can share the load.  In these smaller cases I would avoid passive cooling due to airflow issues.  However they do have a 120mm fan in the back, but if you swap this for something like a Thermocool or similar ceramic bearing fan itll be very quiet.  

These cases will take up to 3 HDDs alongside a couple of CD drives if required.